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Impact of coronavirus on air pollution: Is the virus curing the earth of humans?

There's been an unexpected benefit of the partial global lockdown: air quality has improved. But nothing has changed in Nigeria.
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Impact of coronavirus on air pollution: Is the virus curing the earth of humans?

“Coronavirus good; humans bad.” “We were the virus all along.” Are some of the statements that have been making the rounds to commend the unplanned results of the near-global lockdown.

Most of the 183 countries with confirmed cases of coronavirus (AKA COVID-19) have been on lockdown to curb the outbreak of the deadly disease and flatten the curve, while scientists work on finding a foolproof vaccine.

In China — where the deadly disease broke out — and Europe, which has now become the hot spot of COVID-19, there have been a phenomenal reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations.

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Last updated: January 31, 2025

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